Up until now I haven't talked much about DB2, except perhaps to
note it's a little different. But what is a DB2 Batch job anyway? It's
important to note a DB2 job ISN'T necessarily exclusively DB2 - although
some are. It's just a job that has some DB2 in...

I don't know how many years it's been since DB2 Version 8 was shipped but I've FINALLY added support for some really useful statistics that became available with that release. As so often happens I was caused to open up my code because of some customer data...

There was a time before blogging and what I'm about to talk about is something I used to explain quite often back in those days. Reminded by a current customer situation - and needing to explain it again - I thought it time to do it this way. (Here I'm...

When tuning DB2 batch it's important to know which SMF 101 Accounting Trace record corresponds to which job step. A few years ago I wrote code to do this. It works fine for all z/OS DB2 Batch except that originated by IMS. Here's how it works: Find all the...

You can get some expert exposure to Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager and our Cloud Cost Management solutions via
our demo's and workshops at Pulse 2012. Please come along to see us if
you are at Pulse this year. . The workshops are in the MGM Studio...

IBM z Systems: SAP Insurance Analyzer The Insurance Industry is evolving. There is stiffer competition for customers using new technologies and there are new regulations meant to establish guidelines for insurers. International Financial...

This may be stating the obvious - but I wonder to whom it actually is obvious... I've been doing quite a lot of work with batch job timings and CPU recently. (Everything I'm about to say is equally true of steps.) It's interesting to think about the effects...

Managing Costs in the Cloud With IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator By Paul Quigley This is the second of a two-part blog focusing on implementing IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator 2.3 with IBM SmartCloud Cost Management to help you measure cloud resource...

I have added two new documents in the BVQ wiki in the English section a customer presentation about BVQ Reporting - this file is also available in german English main page , bvq_reporting_en.pdf German main page , bvq_reporting.pdf In the German section...

Would you like to expand your TUAM Cognos reporting experience? The TUAM team are pleased to announce the delivery of 10 new Cognos reports, that enhance TUAM Cognos reporting in the following ways: Graphs and Pie charts have been introduced giving users an...

I finished the translation of the BVQ Accounting Package specs With the BVQ Accounting Package, BVQ can work with organizational objects such as cost centers, application groups, applications and volume groups. The SVC/Storwize volumes can be assigned to these...

Many of you, including our own L2 performance team have spent many years creating spreadsheets to combine the stats and accounting data to reveal things like average CPU seconds or elapsed time per occurrence or COMMIT based on the CONNTYPE. This can be...

Hello, My name is Edgar Mengelberg and I have been working with the Maximo and TPAE product suite in various Support roles for over 15 years and recently started to further work with the full TRIRIGA product suite. A typical scenario would show that a...

The TUAM team are pleased to announce the delivery of a further 17 TCR Cognos reports . These enhance the existing TUAM reporting set plus allow you to: See examples of Cognos Dashboards containing Usage and Financial Reports Compare your budgets against...